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A Book of Flies Real or Otherwise |
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Richard Michelson |
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0761450505 |
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From Publishers Weekly
With more than a touch of whimsy and humor, this eccentric collection of poems and facts about flies is wonderfully outr?. Even more droll than Michelson and Baskin's previous collaborations (Animals that Ought to Be), this volume focuses on 13 insects. The pages first depict each species imaginatively, then factually. Baskin's fanciful Mydas Fly, for example, is seated on a kingly throne and opposed by a poem in which the fly declares that although he's "filthy rich... [his] gold's no good./ Flies can't buy cars... Flies don't wear clothes/ (or underwear)./ Our food is free./ O, woe is me./ I'm one unhappy millionaire." The next page includes a pen-and-ink drawing of three real-life Mydas flies; the facing text notes that "these mostly black flies do have an orange band, like a money belt, wrapped around their... |
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Framing of the Federal Constitution |
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Richard R. Morris |
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0788146165 |
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Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The "Library" of Apollodorus |
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Michael Simpson (Translator) |
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0870232061 |
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Text: English, Greek (translation)
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The Man Who Died |
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D. H. Lawrence |
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0880014296 |
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In his last novel, published less than a year before his untimely death at the age of forty-five, D.H. Lawrence takes up the theme of Christ's resurrection and his final days on Earth. Lawrence recounts Christ's agonizing journey from death back to life with an alarmingly proffane realism, depicting the tale from teh moment of his initial painful awakening to his eventual redemptive sexual relationship with the priestess of the pagan goddess Isis.The story expands beyond its Christian roots to explore and embrace Lawrence's abiding faith in the life-force apparent in every aspect of the natural world. For his final work, Lawrence has encapsulated a lifetime of extraordinary vision into one profound and exquisite parable.
Excerpted from The Man Who Died by D. H. Lawrence, Leonard... |
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The Prolific and the Devourer |
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W. H. Auden |
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First published some 10 years ago in Antaeus magazine, this series of brief meditations was begun by Auden in 1939 and left unfinished. In it the poet seeks truth--political, moral, personal, spiritual--in cautionary reflections and finely ventured definitions that can sting with their meticulously objective slant, yet curiously passionate resonance. Auden will at times advise subversion, for instance, with the steely authority of a priest, but also seems only too aware of the pain that sinners--"all men are sinners"--must feel, regardless. He is most convincing when most palpably aware of the pain and the balancing of pain with the need for judgment. The mounting abstractness of Auden's discourse may be either blessed or damned, but it is exacting, and to some will seem irksome, too persistently high-minded. Yet... |
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The Symposium |
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John A. Brentlinger (Editor) |
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A superb example of the bookmaker's and translator's art, this new edition of Plato's Symposium exhibits aesthetic, literary, and intellectual excellences rarely found together in a single volume.
Tom Griffith's translation of this foundation work of Western culture is unsurpassed for the balance it achieves between readability and fidelity to Plato's Greek. For felicity of phrasing, freshness, care to match the sense of the Greek rather than its wording, and for its idiomatic rendering of the spoken word, it has no peer.
Originally published in a limited edition with facing Greek and color wood engravings, Griffith's translation is here presented in reduced format that retains the aesthetic quality of the original version at an affordable price.
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Ten Times Better |
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Richard Michelson |
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From Publishers Weekly
Michelson and the recently deceased Baskin follow up A Book of Flies with an imaginative numbers book that picks up where most others leave off. Tackling the concept of multiplying by 10, the duo waltzes through a virtual bestiary of creatures who jostle and joust for position. When an elephant boasts, "When I get hot, my ONE big schnozz'll/ double as a shower nozzle," a squid retorts, "Big nose? Big deal. I'm TEN times wetter./ TEN tentacles are TEN TIMES BETTER." A three-toed sloth faces off against a 30-legged centipede, and a five-armed starfish is told off by a school of 50 goldfish. Michelson's jocular verse injects plenty of laughs into the calculations, while Baskin's jaunty, detailed watercolors deploy a sophisticated palette of muted autumnal hues. Several images are swallowed as they cross the gutter,... |
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Flight Among the Tombs: Poems |
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Anthony Hecht |
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0679765921 |
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Flight Among the Tombs, Anthony Hecht's sixth book of poems published since 1954, shows one of America's foremost poets working at the top of his form. Part scholar, part circus ringmaster, Hecht calls our attention to three rings of his erudition: classical wit, Renaissance energy, and contemporary doubt. A fragment of Christopher Smart provides the book's title, but George Herbert, in whose clever prosodic vineyards Hecht has long labored, casts the book's longest shadow. The first half contains lyrical poems in which Death--both scythe-hauling figure and physical phenomenon--speaks as the central character inside a collage of masks: carnival barker, film director, society lady, member of the Harlem Guild of St. Luke, and, of course, poet. Hilarious and creepy, the poems combine Hecht's late-modernist sense of... |
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Sculpture in Wood |
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Jack C. Rich |
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Down-to-earth, practical book by noted sculptor covers everything you need to know—woods, tools, equipment, carving techniques, finishing, preservation, etc. Especially valuable "dictionary of woods" covers geographical distribution, physical properties, carving characteristics, more. Over 70 photos and drawings illustrate methods and techniques, works by Brancusi, Henry Moore, Leonard Baskin, other artists. Glossary. Bibliography.
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